Sharif Kabungsuwan

For the Philippine province, see Shariff Kabunsuan.

Muhammad Kabungsuwan
Sultan
Reign	Sultanate of Maguindanao: 1520-1543
Full name	Sultan Muhhamad Dipatuan Kudarat
Birthplace	Maguindanao
Died	1543
Predecessor	none
Successor	Sultan Maka-alang Saripada
Wives	Daughter of Macaapun Rajah Simbaan of Malabang Angintabo (Maranao princess) Masawang (Angintabo's niece)
Offspring	Sultan Maka-alang Saripada, Dayang Daragat, Layagun, Aloyodan, other nine issues
Father	Ali Zein ul-Abedin of Mecca
Mother	Daughter of Sultan Iskandar Jukarnain of Malacca

Shariff Muhammed Kabungsuwan^[1] was the first Sultan of Maguindanao in the Philippines. A native of Johor in Maritime Southeast Asia, Kabungsuwan re-settled in Mindanao in the Philippines where he preached Islam to the native tribes around the region.^[2][3]

Kabungsuwan was of Arab-Malay ethnicity. He married a local princess and established the Sultanate of Maguindanao in the 16th century.^[2] The sultanate was usually centered in the valley of Cotabato.

The former province of Shariff Kabunsuan in the Philippines was named after him.

Notes

1. ^ Ang Bayan Sa Labas Ng Maynila (2008), pg 195
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.mnlf.net/History/The%20Maguindanao%20Sultanate.htm
3. ^ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/lppsec/pp/maguindanao.htm&date=2009-10-26+01:59:24

References

• Ang Bayan Sa Labas Ng Maynila, by Rosario Cruz Lucero, published by Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008, ISBN 971550535X

Regnal titles
Preceded by none Establishment	Sultan of Maguindanao 1520-1543	Succeeded by Sultan Maka-alang Saripada

Persondata
Name	Kabungsuwan, Mohammed
Alternative names
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Date of birth
Place of birth	Maguindanao
Date of death	1543
Place of death